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“There is one thing about being President -- nobody can tell you when to sit down.”

Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956

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“I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part”

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“Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.”

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“Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.”

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